[lgieron]

> "In harms way"? Doesn't that seem rather ... barbarian.

Was your grandpa that fought in WWII (assuming for a second you had one) a barbarian?

[ArkyBeagle]

Two uncles ( my grandfathers were both too old) fought in WWII. One was an aircraft mechanic. I don't know what the other uncle did in the war.

Fighting doesn't make one a barbarian. The belief that suffering and sacrifice are the path to glory are.

[nitrogen]

That seems needlessly personal, and neither answer helps you make an argument in any direction about the parent comment.

[lgieron]

I though it was a short way to make a clear point. Let me write a longer version then:

Is it barbaric? Maybe, but, whether we like it or not, the world has a defnite component of barbarism to it. There are wars going on as we speak, and there are threats of much bigger wars constantly hanging in the air.

It not impossible to eliminate physical danger out of our lives and to dismiss it (because one does not witness it first-hand at the moment) is not very mature. I'm not even mentioning the natural calamities, fires, car crashes etc., where there's room for heroism as well.